Minister 'misinterpreted the requirements' after failure to declare second house in Longford

When is the Dail back? A few questions could expose this absolute chancer. 100%

They've just posted an article on how he also failed to declare a directorship of a property company in his Dáil register of members interests! Christ they are playing chess while he and the government are playing with playdo 😂

If SM/Internet did not exist politicians in Ireland would be getting away with murder.

It's him thinking he would get away with it that makes him more stupid than actually doing it.

A trawl of every house purchased by Meath County Council over the last 5 years would be the next step in fun.

Politicians do this all the time and chance their arms on expenses and other payments and they have to pay them back. For all the gnashing of teeth this is now a SIPO matter. They did say yesterday that this doesn't come under interests that need to be declared and they may or may not investigate the Paul Murphy complaint. The CC angle is very odd in all of this.

Murphy has done it before about the same person. Nobody says it is OK, but that is the purpose of SIPO - to be a watchdog on public officials and expose it. It's a cat and mouse thing and they are rarely criminal activities but they do test the limits of public standards and what public officials believe they are entitled to.

Yes it's worth exploring but they can't tread on other toes. I don't think we can let them get into legal stuff but definitely widen the definition of interests.

Troy not available for interview all week and has released new statement

Fianna Fáil minister failed to declare directorship of property company

Troy is at it again - this the man with responsibility for business regulation

Aren't they suppose to be Tax compliant and have a Tax compliant certificate before taking up the position of a TD. Wasn't there something about this a few years ago when it came out a TD didn't have a tax compliant certificate. I remember when I was renting out an apartment to people who were on HAP and the amount of paperwork I had to produce to allow them rent the apartment with HAP including being tax compliant.

I'd start by asking Troy a couple of questions:

• Why did he assume he didn't have to declare property interests on the register if he had sold them by the end of the calendar year?
• Did he seek advice from anyone on this assumption? If not, why not? As there is a worsening housing crisis in the country, and cabinet ministers must be seen to be completely above board, in all areas of property ownership and transparency.

The whole thing completely stinks, it's clear as day that he played the system like a fiddle out of pure greed, and used his political connections to wheel and deal in property. Also why did he insist his tenant paid in cash? Dodgy as f*ck.

I'd complain to my local FF TD but what is the fcuking point at this stage, no one under 45 is voting for this shower of s*it at the next election so I just hope that election comes around ASAP.

Not a whisper on RTE.ie do they not have a lot of very expensive journalists to examine this kind of carry on

In fairness, Claire Byrne show covered it this morning. I'd expect more on News At One.

More than greed - corruption.

Council were not desperate to buy these houses, so big questions over why they paid what they did for a house which was:

"in bad shape and it needed an awful lot of repairs and renovations." - according to the man who sold Troy the house, only 3 months prior. Yet it sold for higher than any of the other houses in the same estate?